Kobe can’t win championships without Derek Fisher.

Video from the 2009 Championship riots. I had to leave LA before game 5 this year.

The Good Luck Charm?

I’d just like to point out:

• I was in Los Angeles on June 14, 2009.
• I was in New York City on November 4, 2009.
• I was in New Orleans on February 7, 2010.
• I will be in Chicago May 27 - June 2, 2010.

If you watch sports, you might see where I’m going with this.

(via Flip Flop Fly Ball)

New York is pretty impressive, nearly doubling second place Boston.

However, I’m more impressed by Green Bay, making the list while having only one professional team in their city. Go Packers!

I happened to be in LA when the Lakers won the NBA Finals. Riots ensued, and it ruled.

No one was really going into the gas station. All of the sudden a rush of about 30 people went inside, and started looting. Then, everyone on the street bum rushed the store. It was like a stampede. Everything that was stolen was then thrown at the cops in the street. Glass bottles, chips, hot dogs, popcorn. The street looked like the stands after a sporting event, smashed up left-over food everywhere.

I happened to be in LA when the Lakers won the NBA Finals. Riots ensued, and it ruled.

This guy decided that a Lakers Championship is perfect reason to finally lash out against the Coffee Bean.

Chauncey Billups’ Off Kobe’s Back Pass

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GIF Party!!

This is how you win championships, if you’re a Nuggets fan

And if you’re a Lakers fan, that’s Kobe’s audition for the Generals

Editors’ Notes: Click here to watch the play with the Globetrotters theme song playing and here for the Benny Hill Theme.

Chauncey’s Grandma is going to be rolling in her grave…

Suddenly, he notices the defender guarding the inbounds pass has turned his back to him. So 18-year-old Chauncey throws the ball off the defender’s rear end, catches it, drop-steps and dunks with two hands. Chauncey has himself a bucket and an assist. The crowd snickers … except for his grandmother sitting in the 10th row.

Her name is Florence Gresham, and she always has told her grandson to tone it down, to respect his opponent, to play the game “the right way.” It’s a conversation they have a lot. She lives just blocks from the Skyland Rec Center in Park Hill, where Chauncey plays ball after school, so every day he walks to her house for a soda, and every day she tells Chauncey to behave himself on the court.

So that’s why, after his dunk sends the Metro State College arena into a tizzy, Chauncey looks over to his grandmother and mouths: Sorry.

-ESPN Outside the Lines

Nuggs in 6.